Thoughts on recommended citation when using gnuplot?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

I am forwarding a bit of recent correspondence on this question.
Anyone have different or additional suggestions?

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> could you please let me know how you normally/preferably reference gnuplot in
> publications (since you are the link between gnuplot and the crystallographic
> world)?

I don't know of any formal policy.  It's an interesting question, and I will
see if anyone on the developer's mailing list has anything to add.
 
> My current Bibtex entry reads
> @manual{gnuplot,
> author = "Williams, T. and Kelley, C.",
> title  = "gnuplot",
> date   = "Aug 31, 2007",
> year   = "2007",
> url    = {http://www.gnuplot.info}
> }

> but maybe there is something better?

I suggest:

@MISC{Gnuplot_4.4,
 author = {Thomas Williams and Colin Kelley and {many others}},
 title = {Gnuplot 4.4: an interactive plotting program},
 month = {March},
 year = {2010},
 howpublished={\url{http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/}}
}

Other ways to handle URLs in BibTeX are listed at
http://win.ua.ac.be/~nschloe/content/bibtex-how-cite-website

        cheers,

                Ethan

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Ethan A Merritt
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